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Real People 'Personal Identity Without Thought Experiments' Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Wilkes, Kathleen V. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0198240805     ISBN-13: 9780198240808
Publisher: Clarendon Press
OUR PRICE: $68.40  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: January 1994
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Annotation: This book explores the scope and limits of the concept of a person. Questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation, Wilkes argues that such experimentation engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results, and that truth is anyway stranger than fiction. She then examines an assortment
of real-life conditions, including fantasy, insanity and dementia, dissociated states, and split brains; questions the idea that people have some special kind of unity and continuity of consciousness; and looks at the views of the person as found in Homer, Aristotle, the post-Cartesians, and
contemporary cognitive science.

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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Epistemology
- Psychology
Dewey: 155.2
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.47" W x 8.53" L (0.71 lbs) 260 pages
 
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This book explores the scope and limits of the concept of a person. Questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation, Wilkes argues that such experimentation engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results, and that truth is anyway stranger than fiction. She then examines an assortment
of real-life conditions, including fantasy, insanity and dementia, dissociated states, and split brains; questions the idea that people have some special kind of unity and continuity of consciousness; and looks at the views of the person as found in Homer, Aristotle, the post-Cartesians, and
contemporary cognitive science.
 
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